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their bufinefs, is very pleafing ; carpenters, 

 fmiths, mafons, labourers, boatmen, (^c. 

 (s'c, are all employed in great numbers, fo 

 that the works advance with great celerity. 

 Here I obrerved two very large barges, 

 with a houfe built in each, and a chimney 

 in one : This is a floating blackfmith's 

 forge and fliop, with all ibrts of tools, &c. 

 The other is a carpenter's Ihop ; thefe are 

 of excellent ufe in following the works as 

 they advance ; faving all the trouble and 

 expence of repeated eredlions and re- 

 movals. 



The works are alfo carrying on by near 

 three hundred meo, about two miles fur- 

 ther ; - barges have been carried thither 

 by land, and floated for the ufe of the 

 workmen; but both parts of the canal will 

 foon join, as the buflnefs gbes en with 

 ^ much fpirit. 



Another part of his Grace's defign, and 

 which he has a»n 2.&. to enable him to exe- 

 cute, is to extend a branch of his canal 

 from Safe Moor to Stockpcrt, but not yet 

 begun : That place being a town of conli- 

 derable manufacture and trade, further very 

 confiderablc benefits may reafonably be ex- 

 pected to accrue from the encreafe of tra,fi:c 



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